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But just when he thought he’d begun to shed the rap and establish his own profile as a serious-minded lawmaker, all the old knocks are back in Quayle’s face, this time threatening to send the first-term Republican packing from Congress just two years after he arrived.

In a bitter clash of incumbents, the 35-year-old Quayle has come under assault by his opponent, freshman GOP Rep. David Schweikert. He’s painting his younger House colleague — unfairly, Quayle says — as a fortunate and immature son of the establishment who owes his place in Congress to family connections rather than to any concrete accomplishments.

Schweikert is running TV ads highlighting Quayle’s 2007 posts under a pseudonym for TheDirty.com, a racy website about Scottsdale nightlife. Quayle, the ad says, has “embarrassed us too many times.”

And a pro-Schweikert super PAC is airing commercials imagining Quayle, the son of former vice president Dan Quayle, as a “handsome squire who believed he was a prince.”

Ben Quayle, for his part, accuses Schweikert of running a campaign of “outright lies” and “acts of desperation.”

Rather than a battle of ideology or policy, the race between the two staunchly conservative congressmen with similar voting records has boiled down to a question of character. They are competing in a Tuesday primary after being thrown into the same district, about two-thirds of which Quayle represents, by the once-a-decade redistricting process.

“I didn’t grow up rich. I washed dishes and parked cars to get into college. So we got there through two very different paths. There was always going to be this split. His father is very powerful, very important, and he comes from a very wealthy family,” Schweikert said in an interview.

“For a lot of voters out there, they get to decide if they want to go with the traditional establishment mechanics or with the insurgent,” he added.

In a deeply conservative district filled with tea party activists and voters unhappy with the Washington order, tying Quayle to the establishment has been an effective line of attack, Arizona political observers say.

Schweikert “has been able to identify him by saying, ‘Here’s a 35-year-old with a famous last name who doesn’t belong here,’” said Brian Murray, a former executive director of the Arizona Republican Party who is neutral in the race. “And a lot of people probably don’t believe he does.”

The conundrum for Quayle, who won a splintered 2010 GOP primary with less than a quarter of the vote, is combating the notion that he’s just an entitled establishment figure — even though he has one of the most identifiable names in politics.

People close to the congressman say he has spent much of his first two years in office trying to erase questions about his maturity. After his 2010 race, in which he was pounded over the website writings and a picture showing him partying in a cow costume, Quayle has worked to establish himself as a bookish wonk. He joined committees overseeing homeland security, judiciary and technology issues.

And with an eye toward diminishing the criticism that he’s a superficial spotlight-seeker, Quayle allies say he has turned down many TV interviews offered to him.

At a meet-and-greet with supporters in a gated Scottsdale community Wednesday, Quayle held forth for nearly 30 minutes, providing detailed answers to questions on the economy.

I have no opinion on Ben Quayle but I do know I am getting leary of the political families we are starting to have - Kennedy's ,Bush's, etc.. It wouldn't be so bad if there wasn't the career politicians - we need term limits and we need some real reform on how the whole process works. I'd like to see a cap on how much money can be spent and how soon the campaigning can be done. I don't know about you but I'm sick of paying for politicians to do nothing more than fund raising and campaigning. It's about time they were forced to actually do the job they were elected for.

Give me a break - one doesn't have to be poor when growing up to be a politician.

Look at the amateur obama...growing up with his WHITE mom, going to WHITE high school, in a choom gang with WHITE kids, going to prestigious colleges/universities, living in expensive houses on land weaseled by a corrupt thug (currently in jail), hanging out with WHITE reactionaries such as ayers, etc etc etc.

Stop with the "black president" schtick - he is as much white as he is black. And his life experience has not even been close to the experience blacks go through - so don't tell me obama feels what it is like, or how he relates to "his people"

He is an amateuristic political hack and nothing more. If he was speaking from his heart he wouldn't need his teleprompters - transparent?, yes - there is no substance within!

Jurriaan Maessen Infowars.com August 26, 2012 In a report published last April by the Royal Society titled People and the Planet, the elitist UK-based society calls for massive population reduction and de-industrialization of the west. However drenched in euphemisms, the report cannot conceal its ominous undertones. Listed among its “key recommendations” the report proposes several measures similar to the one put out recently by MIT in which a drastic reduction of the population is called for in the name of “modelling” and predictions. Immediately after the Royal Society released its call for more death and mega-cities, none other than Paul Ehrlich weighed in to regurgitate his own eugenic fancies. The Guardian reported that Ehrlich, who contributed to the report, eagerly endorses its conclusions. In regards to redistributing wealth, Ehrlich is quite upfront about his opinion on the matter: “They (population and resources) multiply together. You have to deal with them together. We have too much consumption among the rich and too little among the poor. That implies that terrible thing that we are going to have to do which is to somehow redistribute access to resources away from the rich to the poor.” “How many of your support depends on lifestyles.”, Ehrlich stated. “We came up with 1.5 to 2 billion because you can have big active cities and wilderness. If you want a battery chicken world where everyone has minimum space and food and everyone is kept just about alive you might be able to support in the long term about 4 or 5 billion people. But you already have 7 billion. So we have to humanely and as rapidly as possible move to population shrinkage.” Complete article at: http://www.infowars.com/veiled-threats-by-prominent-neo-malthusians-cull-human-population-or-expect-vast-die-off/

Rep. Ben Quayle, the well-to-do son of the former vice president, has heard it all.

But just when he thought he’d begun to shed the rap and establish his own profile as a serious-minded lawmaker, all the old knocks are back in Quayle’s face, this time threatening to send the first-term Republican packing from Congress just two years after he arrived.

Ben has benefitted by being the privilged son of a man who benefitted from being the husband of a privileged wife.

But it's nice to see that Ben inherited his Dad's conservative intellect, and their ability to blame others in the face of FACTS.

"Bank failures are caused by depositors who don't deposit enough money to cover losses due to mismanagement." -- Ben's Dad, Dan Quayle, 1988 Once just a heartbeat away from being an American President.

I was amazed he was elected in the first place but Mommy and Daddy have a lot of pull in the GOP in Arizona. Schweikert better be careful........Mommy will have Jan Brewer go after him. Arizona has their share of nuts for politicians but Junior is not leadership material. He's another rich kid with a silver spoon in his mouth who got the job because of his connections. I can think of a number of older politicians in the past from wealthy families who worked many years for that honor and had integrity......the new breed doesn't cut it.